About Typesense
Typesense is an open source search engine built for fast, typo-tolerant search in websites and apps. It exposes its features through a simple REST API, so you can add search without a large setup.
What it does
Typesense indexes your documents in memory and returns results quickly, even when a user makes a spelling mistake. It supports autocomplete, filters and facets, geographic search and vector-based semantic search. Scoped API keys let you give each customer or tenant access to only their own data.
Key features
- Typo-tolerant search for sites and apps
- Autocomplete and fuzzy matching
- Faceted filters and geo search
- Vector and semantic search
- Scoped API keys for multi-tenant indexes
Who it's for
Developers and small product teams that need fast search but find large search clusters hard to run. It suits startups building search into a product and teams that want an open source option close to hosted search services.
Pricing and good to know
Typesense is open source under the GPL-3.0 license and can be self-hosted. A hosted version called Typesense Cloud is also offered. Because it keeps indexes in memory, plan your server size around how much data you index.
Highlights
- Search that tolerates spelling mistakes
- Autocomplete as users type
- Filter results with facets and geo search
- Semantic search using vector embeddings
- Create scoped API keys for each tenant
